What Does 1 Chronicles 3:3 Mean?
The fifth, Shephatiah, of Abital; the sixth, Ithream, by Eglah his wife.
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
The fifth, Shephatiah of Abital: the sixth, Ithream by Eglah his wife.THE KEY
Shephatiah makes judgment part of the family line’s name, not a separate pronouncement.
THE MEANING
This line keeps a claim about divine judgment inside a family name: Shephatiah means “YHWH has judged.” That claim sits beside the plain facts of kinship, carried within an ordinary human lineage.
THE ROOT
שְׁפַטְיָה
Shephatyah
GROWS FROM
שפט
To judge, decide, or govern.
“Shephatiah” in this verse is Shephatyah. The name joins the root shaphat, “to judge,” with Yah, a form of the divine name: “YHWH has judged.” The English list can read like bare bookkeeping, but this name carries a claim about who judges within the family record.
ALSO GROWS
shofet: Judge or ruler.
שֹׁפֵט
This branch shows the root as a person who exercises judgment, the same root carried in Shephatiah’s name.
mishpat: Judgment, justice, or an ordinance.
מִשְׁפָּט
This branch makes the act of judging into a matter of justice or order, opening the name’s claim beyond a personal label.
THE PATTERN
In Scripture, a name can compress an action or claim that the surrounding words make visible.
And the child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses, the one drawn out, and she said, Because from the waters I drew him out.And she will bring forth a son, and you will call his name Jesus, the LORD's deliverance, for he will deliver his people from their missing.THE THREAD
Those who strive with the LORD are shattered; from the heavens he thunders upon them. The LORD judges the edges of the earth, and gives strength to his king, and lifts high the horn of his anointed one.Shephatiah carries the root שפט (shaphat, “to judge”) in its name; Hannah’s song uses that same root directly: “the LORD shall judge.” The name in the family line opens onto this wider claim about the LORD’s judgment.
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